DeepSeek's Harness hits 1.54M daily active users, with over 35K third-party plugins
11/09/2026 — 11/10, 16:21·3 sources (all)·3 reports (all)
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- InfoQ reports that DeepSeek's open-source agent app Harness has reached a new milestone: as of November 4, applying the official API user me…
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On November 9, 2026, Bloomberg reported that DeepSeek released adoption figures for its AI agent infrastructure, claiming 1.54 million daily active users. The piece framed DeepSeek as a Chinese startup building an entire swath of applications around open-source AI technologies, and noted that it is continuing to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI as a result.
Later the same day, a follow-up report added more detail on the source of the numbers. DeepSeek said the figure came from its open-source agent app Harness, which reached 1.54 million DAUs on November 4, less than three months after launch. The app is said to consume roughly 92T tokens per day, or about 60M per user on average.
Two caveats are worth noting. First, all of these figures are self-reported by DeepSeek, and the company said so explicitly; none of the numbers have been independently verified. Second, the earlier report attributed the 1.54M DAU figure to DeepSeek's broader AI agent infrastructure, while the later one pinned it specifically to Harness, an individual application. At this stage, the numbers stand as the company's own claims, and there is no third-party confirmation of either the DAU count or the token consumption.
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Latest turnDeepSeek says its Harness agent platform reached 1.54 million daily active API users and about 92 trillion tokens consumed per day as of November 4, with roughly 35,000 third-party plugins and 60% of active users installing or building one. The company pitches the plugin-first design as an operating system for agents, while acknowledging that plugin sprawl brings context bloat and higher execution costs.
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DeepSeek says its Harness agent platform reached 1.54 million daily active API users and about 92 trillion tokens consumed per day as of November 4, with roughly 35,000 third-party plugins and 60% of active users installing or building one. The company pitches the plugin-first design as an operating system for agents, while acknowledging that plugin sprawl brings context bloat and higher execution costs.
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DeepSeek says its open-source agent app Harness reached 1.54M daily active users on November 4, less than three months after launch, according to Bloomberg's Saritha Rai. The company says the app consumes roughly 92T tokens a day, or about 60M per user.
TechmemeAI score 63DeepSeek says its AI agent platform now has 1.54 million daily users, Bloomberg reports, as the company continues to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI with a broad set of applications built on open-source AI technology.
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